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IMPEACHMENT of the BIBLE 


A BRIEF 


Offering the Bible in Evidence 
in the Cause 



Twentieth Century Intelligence 

vs. 

Ignorance and Superstition 

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“Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible.”— Ingersoll. 

“The next great moral revolution of the world will be a crusade 
against the Christian Bible.”— L. K. Washburn. 

“We are standing on the eve of the most stupendous revolution in 
reference to the doctrines of the Bible that the world has ever known.” 
— Rev. Dr. Curry. 













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CONTENTS 

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Introduction.5 

Bible Contradictions. 7 

Absurd Stories.25 

The Bible and Science.* . 38 

Immorality of the Bible.49 

Concluding Argument.76 

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INTRODUCTION 


Intelligent men and women constitute the highest 
and last court of appeals for the consideration of all 
great moral issues. Today, the Christian Bible is on 
trial before the Twentieth Century Court of Reason. 
And, because of the questions involved, which are of 
vital interest to millions of men, women and children 
in every quarter of the globe, it is, without doubt, the 
most important case that has ever claimed the atten¬ 
tion of the civilized world. 

Hundreds of millions, professing to be Christians, 
are unfamiliar with the Bible. They believe the 
Bible is 4u The Inspired Word of a Personal God; 
Without Error or Blemish,” and that it iw Is the Purest 
and Grandest Code of Morals the World Has Ever 
Known.” I might introduce historians, archaeolo¬ 
gists, scientists and philosophers, to disprove these 
claims, but I maintain that this is unnecessary, as a 
careful examination of the Bible itself, by any intel¬ 
ligent, fair-minded and unprejudiced man or woman, 
cannot but result in its impeachment. Therefore, I 
beg leave to introduce in evidence, the Bible. 

I propose to prove to all those who possess the 
power of coherent thinking and reasoning, that the 
Bible is a man-made book; that it is filled with errors 
and contradictions; that it does not agree with 
science; that it contains many absurd and impossible 


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stories; that it is grossly immoral, vulgar and ob¬ 
scene; that it makes God a fiend and has been respon¬ 
sible for ignorance, bigotry, intolerance, persecutions 
and wars in which untold millions have been slain. 

The compilation of these Bible references has re¬ 
quired years of careful study and investigation. In 
addition to a careful examination of the Bible, I have 
had access to the writings of John E. Remsburg, Hud¬ 
son Tuttle, Rev. E. W. Sprague, Robert Ingersoll, D. 
L. Carpenter, Thomas Paine, Kersey Graves, Draper, 
Higgins and Taylor. I gratefully acknowledge the 
monumental work of these men. 

In order not to violate the Postal Regulations gov¬ 
erning the sending of objectionable matter through 
the mails, I have been obliged to refrain from quot¬ 
ing the text, in many cases, and merely refer to the 
book, chapter and verse where the reader can find 
the evidence. 

With these few remarks, I submit this case for 
humanity, truth and justice, to the Court of Reason 
and Common Sense; Knowing full well what the ver¬ 
dict will be. The evidence is unanimous and unan¬ 
swerable for the impeachment of its claim that it is 
the ‘"Divine Revelation of God.’ ? 

E. S. West. 

Oak Park, Illinois, January 1, 1923. 


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CONTRADICTIONS 


“That book is apocryphal which contains contra¬ 
dictions; or which contains histories, or proposes doc¬ 
trines contrary to those which are known to be true; 
or which contains ludicrous, fabulous, trifling or silly 
relations; or which contains anachronisms; or 
wherein the style is clearly different from the known 
style of the author whose name it bears/’ 

—Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Jones. 

Measured by the rule laid down by Dr. Jones, not 
one book of the Bible can escape the discard. The 
Rev. Dr. Cheever has stated that, “The Bible does 
not contain the shadow or a shade of error from 
Genesis to Revelations.” And Bunyan wrote: 
“Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse 
of it, is the direct utterance of the Most High.” There 
are none so blind as those who refuse to see. 

In the revision of the Authorized Version of the 
Bible more than one hundred thousand alterations 
were made. In comparing the more recent copies of 
the Bible with the Bibles and manuscripts of a few 
centuries ago, more than one hundred and fifty thou¬ 
sand different readings are found. There are, accord¬ 
ing to Dr. Mill, eighty thousand in the New Testa¬ 
ment alone. Yet, if one error, one contradiction, one 
trifling, silly or immoral statement is found, the claim 


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of Cheever, Bunyan, et al., falls to the ground and 
the foundation is swept from beneath the Christian 
church. Let us examine a few of the Contradictions: 

Have any seen and talked with God? No. 

“Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his 
shape.” John 5:37. 

“No man hath seen God at any time.” I John 4:12. 

Have any seen and talked with God? Yes. 

“And they saw the God oi Israel. ' Exodus 24:10. 

“And they heard the voice ol the Lord God walking in 
the garden.” Genesis 3:8. There are many more conflict¬ 
ing statements upon this question. 

Can any hide from the sight and presence of God? 
No. 

“There is no darkness, nor shadow of death where the 
workers of iniquity may hide themselves.” Job 34:22. 

Can any hide from the sight and presence of God? 
Yes. 

“And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the pres¬ 
ence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.” 
Genesis 3:8. 

“And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, 
Where art thou?” Genesis 3:9. 

Does God tempt and deceive men? No. 

“For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth 
he any man.” James 1:13. 

Does God tempt and deceive men? Yes. 

“God shall send strong delusion, that they should believe 
a lie.” I Thessalonians 2:11. 

“The Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may 
go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one said on this 
manner, and another said on that manner. And there came 
forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will 


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persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? 
And he said, I w r ill go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in 
the mouth of all these thy prophets.” I Kings 22:20-23. 

Will those who seek, find God? 

“They shall seek me early, hut shall not find me.” 
Proverbs 1:28. 

“’Those that seek me early shall find me.” Proverbs 8:17. 

Are children punished for the sins of their parents? 

“‘I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the in¬ 
iquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and 
fourth generation.” Exodus 20:5. 

“The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither 
shall the father bear the iniquity of the son.” Ezekiel 18:20. 

Should Christians hate their brother? 

'“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and no 
murderer hath eternal life.” I John 3:15. 

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and 
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, 
he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26. 

Have any ascended up to heaven? 

“And no man hath ascended up to heaven.” John 3:13. 

“And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” II 
Kings 2:11. 

Are there any righteous men? 

“There is none righteous, no, not one.” Romans 3:10. 

“And they were both righteous before God.” Luke 1:6. 

Who was the father of Joseph? 

“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom 
was born Jesus.” Matthew 1:16. 

“And Jesus, being the son of Joseph, which was the son 
of Heli.” Luke 3:23. 

Has anyone seen God face to face? 

Yes—“‘And there arose not a prophet in Israel like unto 


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Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.” Deuteronomy 
34:10. 

“The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out 
of the midst of the fire.” Deuteronomy 5:4. 

No—“No man hath seen God at any time.” John 1:18. 

Was the witness true? 

“I am one that bear witness of myself.” John 8:18. 

“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.” 
John 5:31. 

Was Abraham cursed for making his own sister 
his wife? 

“Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of 
his father, or the daughter of his mother.” Deuteronomy 
27:22. 

“And Sarah bear Abraham a son.” Genesis 20:2. 

Was it God or Satan who moved David to number 
Israel? 

“And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against 
Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go number 
Israel.” II Samuel 24:1. 

“And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David 
to number Israel.” I Chronicles 21:1. 

How did Judas kill himself? 

“And he departed and went and hanged himself.” Mat¬ 
thew 27:5. 

“Purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and fall¬ 
ing headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and his bowels 
gushed out.” Acts 1:18. 

Some things said about the resurrection. 

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the trumpet 
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.” 
I Corinthians 15:52. 

“They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased. 


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they shall not rise; all their memory shall perish.” Isaiah 
26:14. 

“He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no 
more.” Job 7:9. 

“That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth the 
beast; as one dieth, so dieth the other; a man hath no pre¬ 
eminence above a beast; all go to one place; all are of the 
dust, and all turn to dust again.” Ecclesiastes 3:19,20. 

Was all scripture given by inspiration? 

“All scripture is given by inspiration.” II Timothy 3:16. 

“That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord.” II 
Corinthians 11:17. 

Did the men with Paul hear the voice? 

“And the men stood speechless, hearing a voice, but see¬ 
ing no man.” Acts 9:7. 

“But they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.” 
Acts 22:9. 

Did Michal, Saul’s daughter have any children? 

“Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day 
of her death.” II Samuel 6:23. 

“The five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul.” II 
Samuel 21:8. 

Is lying justified by the Bible ? 

“All liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth 
with fire and brimstone.” Revelations 21:8. 

“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.” Proverbs 

12 : 22 . 

“If the truth of God hath more abounded through my 
lie, why am I judged a sinner?” Romans 3:7. 

“The Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these 
thy prophets.” II Chronicles 18:22. 

Is life of the wicked shortened? 

“The years of the wicked shall be shortened.” Proverbs 
10:27. 


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“Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yes, are 
mighty in power? Their houses are safe from fear, neither 
is the rod of God upon them.” Job 21:7, 9. 

How long shall God’s anger last? 

“His anger endureth but a moment.” Psalms 30:5. 

“Ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn 
forever.” Jeremiah 17:4. 

Can God be tempted? 

“And have tempted me now these ten times.” Numbers 
14:22. 

“God cannot be tempted.” James 1:13. 

Is God omnipotent? 

“With God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26. 

“He drove out the inhabitants of the mountain, but he 
could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because 
they had chariots of iron.” Judges 1:19. 

Was it a man, or God, who wrestled with Jacob? 

“And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking 
of the day.” Genesis 32:24. 

“I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” 
Genesis 32:30. 

Were the disciples glad, or frightened? 

“But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed 
that they had seen a spirit.” Luke 24:37. 

“Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.” 
John 20:20. 

Was Jesus God or man? 

“God was manifest in the flesh, received up into glory.” 
I Timothy 3:16. 

“A man approved of God among you.” Acts 2:22. 

Was God satisfied with his work? 

“God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it 
was very good.” Genesis 1:31. 


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'‘And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the 
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Genesis 6:6. 

Did Moses see and hear God? 

‘‘And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man 
speaketh unto his friend.” Exodus 33:11. 

‘‘No man hath seen God at any time.” John 1:18. 

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Does God require rest? 

“On the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.” Ex¬ 
odus 31:17. 

“The everlasting God, the Lord, fainteth not, neither is 
weary.” Isaiah 40:28. 

Is God changeable? 

“It repented the Lord that he had made man.” Genesis 

6 : 6 . 

“I am the Lord, I change not.” Malachi 3:6. 

Is God just or unjust, impartial or partial? 

“A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is 
he.” Deuteronomy 32:4. 

“But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into 
outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of 
teeth.” Matthew 8:12. 

Is God the author of evil? 

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace 
and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” Isaiah 
45:7. 

“God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.” I 
Corinthians 14:33. 

Is God merciful, or unmerciful? 

“The Lord is a man of war.” Exodus 15:3. 

“Now the God of peace be with you.” Romans 15:33. 

“I will dash them one against the other, even the fathers 
and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will have no pity, 
nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.” Jeremiah 
13:14. 


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Does God delight in burnt offerings? 

“Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering.” 
Exodus 29:36. 

“A bullock or a sheep shall be accepted for an offering 
made by fire unto the Lord.” Leviticus 22:27. 

“Ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made 
by fire unto the Lord.” Leviticus 23:27. 

“An offering made by fire—a sweet savor unto the Lord.” 
Leviticus 1:9. 

“Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacri¬ 
fices sweet unto me.” Jeremiah 6:20. 

“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomina¬ 
tion unto me.” Isaiah 1:13. 

How many children had Arah? 

“The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.” 
Ezra 2:5. 

“The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.” Ne- 
hemiah 7:10. 

Which is correct? 

“The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua 
and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.” 
Nehemiah 7:11. 

“The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua 
and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.” Ezra 
2 : 6 . 

How many were the children of Zattu? 

“The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.” 
Ezra 2:8. 

“The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.” 
Nehemiah 7:13. 

A slight error here. 

“The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.” Ezra 

2:10. 


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4 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight” 
Nehemiah 7:15. 

Another mistake in the inspires count. 

'The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.” 
Ezra 2:11. 

“The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.” 
Nehemiah 7:16. 

Off in the count again. 

The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty 
and two.” Ezra 2:12. 

“The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred 
twenty and two.” Nehemiah 7:17. 

Ezra must have discharged some of the choir. 

“They had two hundred forty and five singing men and 
singing women.” Nehemiah 7:67. 

“There were two hundred singing men and singing 
women.” Ezra 2:65. 

I could refer the reader to hundreds of contradic¬ 
tions of this kind, to prove that God had a poor mem¬ 
ory, or had never learned the science of addition. 
However, this is sufficient to compare in applying the 
rule laid down by Rev. Dr. Jones. 

When was Jesus born? A difference of at least 
nine years. 

“Now Jesus was horn in the days of Herod the king.” 
Matthew 2:1. 

“This taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor 
of Syria.” Luke 2:2. 

For the benefit of those who desire further proof 
that the Bible is not a perfect book, and the Bunyan, 
et ah, do not know what they are talking about when 
they claim that it is without error or blemish, I will 


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refer to a few more contradictions, by naming the 
book, chapter and verse in which they can be found. 

Was he born in a house or in a manger? Compare 
Matthew 2:11 with Luke 2:16. 

What was done with him? Compare Matthew 2:14, 
15 with Luke 2:22-39. 

Name the twelve apostles. Compare Matthew 
10:2, 3, 4 with Luke 6:13, 14, 15, 16. 

Whom did Jesus call? Compare Matthew 9:9 
with Luke 5:27. 

Were they to carry staves? Compare Mark 6:8 
with Luke 9:3. 

Was Jesus a carpenter, or a carpenter’s son? Com¬ 
pare Mark 6:3 with Matthew 13:55. 

How many were possessed with devils? Compare 
Mark 5:2 with Matthew 8:28. 

How many blind men were there? Compare Luke 
18:35 with Matthew 20:30. 

How many times was the cock to crow ? Compare 
Matthew 26:34 with Mark 14:30. 

Was it scarlet or purple? Compare Matthew 26:28 
with John 19:2. 

Was Jesus crucified at noon, or at nine o’clock, A. 
M.? Compare Mark 15:25 with John 19:14. 

What did they give him to drink? Compare Mat¬ 
thew 27:34 with Mark 15:23. 

Was it one, or two thieves, that reviled him? Com¬ 
pare Mark 15:32 with Luke 23:39, 40. 

What was inscribed on the cross? Compare Mark 
15:26; Luke 23:38; Matthew 27:37; John 19:19. 


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Was it lawful for the Jews to put a man to death? 
Compare John 18:31 with John 19:7. 

Who visited the sepulchre? Compare John 20:1; 
Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:1-10. 

What time did they visit the tomb? Compare 
Mark 16:2 with John 20:1. 

Where did he first appear to his disciples? Com¬ 
pare Matthew 28: 10-17 with Luke 24: 33-36. 

Did they stand or fall? Compare Acts 9:7 with 
Acts 26:14. 

Paul denies an account in Acts. Compare Acts 
9:20, 27, 28 with Galatians 1:16-19. 

Was Paul an apostle to the Gentiles? Compare 
Romans 11:13, 15:16; Acts 9:20-22, 13:5, 14, 43. 
14:1, 17:1, 2, 10; 18:4, 19; 28:17. It would appear 
from these texts, that Paul was almost continuously 
preaching to the Jews. 

Paul states that his mission was to the Gentiles and 
that Peter was the apostle to the Jews. Peter, how¬ 
ever, denies this. Compare Galatians 2:7 with Acts 
15:7. 

Faith and works, involve Paul and James in an 
argument. Compare Galatians 2:16-21; Romans 
3:28 with James 2:20-26. 

Does Paul and Peter agree with the four Gospels 
on the question of Jesus’ Godhood? Read I Timothy 
2:5 and Acts 2:22. 

The four Gospels teach a physical resurrection; 
what does Paul say? Read I Corinthians 15:44-50. 


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Immorality is affirmed and denied by Paul. Com¬ 
pare Romans 2:7; I Corinthians 15:53 with I 
Timothy 6:15, 16. 

Does the era of “faith” destroy the “law”? Com¬ 
pare Matthew 5:17, 18 with Galatians, 3:24, 25; 
Romans 7:6. 

Not found in the recorded sayings of Jesus— 
Where did Paul get it? “Remember the words of 
the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to 
give than to receive.” Acts 20:35. 

Paul’s quotation in I Corinthians 2:9 cannot be 
found in the Bible. 

How did Jesus meet his death? Peter makes no 
mention of the cross or crucifixion. Read I Peter 
2:24; Acts 5:30, 10:38, 39. 

All Bible scholars admit I John 5:7 is a forgery; 
yet, the church relies upon it as their chief support of 
the doctrine of the Trinity. Historians know the 
trinity was borrowed from Egyptian mythology. 
From the same source they borrow Isis the mother, 
and Horus the son. 

Critics agree that John calls Paul a liar. Revela¬ 
tions 2:2. 

What kind of a rock was Peter? Read Matthew 
26:69, 70, 72, 74; Matthew 16:18; Galatians 2:11- 
14; II Corinthians 12:16. 

“The briefest expose of the Bible would require a 
larger volume than the Bible itself.”—Remsburg. 

Christians accept as authoritative, both the Hebrew 
and Septuagint versions of the Pentateuch, but they 
contain almost innumeral contradictions. A com- 


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parison of Genesis, 11:12-31 should convince any 
honest investigator of this fact. 

Which account of the creation, if any, does the 
reader prefer to believe? There are two accounts. 
Read Genesis 1:1-31 and 2:1-3 for the first account; 
and Genesis 2:4-23 contains the second account. 
Science proves both stories are false. 

The patriarchal history contained in the Pentateuch, 
is incredible and contradictory. A study of the fifth 
chapter of Genesis reveals the following interesting 
fables: Twelve generations of these patriarchs were 
living at the same time. When Adam died, Noah’s 
father was fifty-six years old. Noah’s father was still 
living when Abraham was fifty-six years old. Abra¬ 
ham was an old man when Noah died. Methuselah 
was still living at the end of the flood. 

Was it a pair, or seven of each kind, Noah took 
into the ark? Compare Genesis 6:19-22 with Genesis 
7:1-5. 

Whose son was Selah? Compare Genesis 10:24, 
(Septugaint Version) 10:24; I Chronicles 1:18 with 
Luke 3:35, 36. 

Was it Pharaoh, or Abimelech, that took Sarah? 
Compare Genesis 20:2, 17, 18 with Genesis 12:15- 
20. Too vile to quote. 

How old was Abram when he went into the land 
of Canaan? Compare Genesis 12:4, 5; 11:26-32; 
Acts 7:4; shows a discrepency of sixty years. 

How many of the house of Jacob went into Egypt? 

“All the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into 
Egypt, were three score and ten.” Genesis 46:27. 


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“Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, 
and all his kindred, three score and fifteen souls.” Acts 7:14. 

Were they Midianites or Ishmaelites? Compare 
Genesis 37:28 with Genesis 39:1. 

An increase from 12 to 3,000,000 in four genera¬ 
tions. Compare Genesis 35:22, 23 with Exodus 6:16- 
20 and Exodus 12:37. 

Did Jesse have seven, or eight sons? Compare 1 
Chronicles 2:13-15 with I Samuel 16:10-12. 

Who gave David the Shewbread? Compare I 
Samuel 21:1-6 with Mark 2:25, 26. 

Which was father and which was son? Compare 
I Samuel 23:6 with II Samuel 8:17. 

How many sons had David in Jerusalem? Com¬ 
pare II Samuel 5:13-16 with I Chronicles 14:3-7. 

How many horsemen did he take? A difference of 
6,300. Compare II Samuel 8:4 with I Chronicles 
18:4. 

Were they horsemen or footmen he slew? Com¬ 
pare II Samuel 10:18 with I Chronicles 19:18. 

How many warriors had Israel and Judah? Com¬ 
pare II Samuel 24:9 with I Chronicles 21:5. 

How many years of famine did David suffer? 
Compare I Chronicles 21:11, 12 with II Samuel 
24:13. 

What did the thrashing floor cost? $26.50, or 
$3,414? Compare II Samuel 24:18-24 with I Chron¬ 
icles 21:18-25. 

How many overseers at the building of the temple? 
Compare I Kings 5:15, 16 with II Chronicles 2:18. 
Solomon’s temple is a myth. 


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How high were the pillars? Compare II Chron¬ 
icles 3:15-17 with I Kings 7:15-21. 

How many baths did it contain? Compare I Kings 
7.26 with II Chronicles 4:5. Wonderful equipment 
for an “air castle.” 

How many stalls for his horses? Compare II 
Chronicles 9:25 with I Kings 4:26. Stalls for his 
wives and concubines must have required considera¬ 
ble space too. 

When did Jehoshaphat die? I and II Kings give 
sixteen answers to this historic question and no two 
of them are the same. They vary from eighteen years 
before the death of Ahazah. to sixteen years after. 
Still we hear that the Bible is “Infallible.” 

Only a few of the many contradictions have been 
given. However, if this list is not sufficient to prove 
my claim, that the Bible is a man-made and a very 
imperfect book, no amount of evidence would over¬ 
come such obstinacy and stupidity. 

Let me submit, for your consideration, a composite 
picture and description of the Bible God. The fol¬ 
lowing Bible texts, clearly reveal the anthropomorphic 
conception of deity which prevailed at that time; and 
which, to a very large degree, is adhered to by the 
Christians of today: 

“God created man in his own image” Gen. 1:27. 

“The hair of his (God’s) head.” Dan. 7:9. 

“Thou canst not see my (God’s) face .” Ex. 33:20. 

“The eyes of the Lord.” II Chron. 16:9. 


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“And his (God’s) ears are open.” I Peter 3:12. 

“There is smoke in my (God’s) nose” Is. 65:5. 

“There went up smoke out of his (God’s) nostrils .” II 
Sam. 22:9. 

“Proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Matt. 4:4. 

“His lips are full of indignation.” Is. 30:27. 

“And his (God’s) tongue as a devouring fire.” Is. 30:27. 
“He shall dwell between his (God’s) shoulders .” Deut 
33:12. 

“Thou (God) hast a mighty arm” Ps. 89:13. 

“The right hand of the Lord.” Ps. 118:16. 

“This is the finger of God.” Ex. 8:19. 

“I (God) will show them the back” Jer. 18:17. 

“Out of thy (God’s) bosom.” Ps. 74:11. 

“My (God’s) heart maketh a noise in me.” Jer. 4:19. 

“My (God’s) bowels are troubled.” Jer. 31:20. 

“The appearance of his (God’s) loins.” Ezek. 1:27. 
“Darkness was under his (God’s) feet” Ps. 18:9. 

“The mind of the Lord.” Lev. 24:12. 

“The breath of his (God’s) nostrils .” II Sam. 22:16. 

“In the light of thy (God’s) countenance.” Ps. 89:15. 
“Thou (God) seest me.” Gen. 16:13. 

“My God will hear me.” Mic. 7:7. 

“The Lord smelled a sweet savor.” Gen. 8:21. 

“The hand of God hath touched me.” Job 19:21. 

“We have heard his (God’s) voice.” Deut. 5:24. 

“God doth talk with man.” Deut. 5:24. 

“The Lord shall laugh at him.” Ps. 37:13. 

“Now will I (God) cry.” Is. 42:14. 

“He (God) shall give a shout.” Jer. 25:30. 

“Why sleepest thou Lord?” Ps. 44:23. 

“Then the Lord awakened.” Ps. 78:65. 

“God sitteth upon a throne.” Ps. 47:8. 

“God raiseth up.” Job 31:14. 

“The Lord stood by him.” Acts 23:11. 


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“I (God) will walk among you.” Lev. 26:12. 

“Thou (God) didst ride upon thine horses.” Hab. 3:8. 
“He (God) ivrestled with him.” Gen. 32:25. 

“The Lord will work .” I Sam. 14:6. 

“I (God) am weary” Is. 1:14. 

“He (God) rested on the seventh day.” Gen. 2:2. 

“The Lord God planted a garden.” Gen. 2:8. 

“God is able to graft.” Romans 11:25. 

“The Father is the husbandman.” John 15:1. 

“He (God) hath fenced up my way.” Job 19:8. 

“The Lord is my shepherd.” Ps. 23:1. 

“The Lord built the house.” Ps. 127:1. 

“The tables were the work of God.” Ex. 32:16. 

“Thou (God) our potter.” Is. 64:8. 

“The Lord God made coats of skin.” Gen. 3:21. 

“And I (God) shod thee with badger’s skin.” Ezek. 16:10. 
“The Lord shaved with a razor that was hired.” Is. 7:20. 
“And he (God) buried him.” Deut. 34:6. 

“Thy God teacheth thee.” Is. 48:17. 

“Musical instruments of God.” I Chron. 16:42. 

“He (God) wrote upon the tables.” Ex. 34:28. 

“Thy book which thou (God) hast written.” Ex. 32:32. 
“0 Lord, I have heard thy speech.” Hab. 3:2. 

“The Lord is our lawgiver.” Is. 33:22. 

“The Lord is our Judge.” Is. 33:22. 

“For God is the king of all the earth.” Ps. 47:7. 

“He (God) is the governor.” Ps. 22:28. 

“God himself.is our captain.” II Chron. 13:12. 

“The Lord is a man of war.” Ex. 15:3. 

“The Lord hath opened his armory.” Jer. 50:25. 

“The Lord shall blow the trumpet.” Zech. 9:14. 

“I (God) myself will fight.” Jer. 21:5. 

“He (God) will whet his sword.” Ps. 7:12. 

“He (God) hath bent his bow.” Lam. 2:4. 

“God shall shoot at them.” Ps. 64:7. 

“Rocks are thrown down by him (God).” Nahum 1:6. 


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“I (God) will kill you.” Ex. 22:24. 

“Thou (God) art become cruel to me.” Job 30:21. 

“I (God) sware in my wrath.” Ps. 95:11. 

“I (God) have cursed them already.” Mai. 2:2. 

“Thy God hath blessed thee.” Deut. 2:7. 

“The Lord repented.” Amos 7:6. 

“God did tempt Abraham.” Gen. 22:1. 

“0, Lord, thou hast deceived me.” Jer. 20:7. 

“He (God) hath polluted the kingdom.” Lam. 2:2. 

“He (God) is mighty in strength .” Job 9:4. 

“I (God) was a husband .” Jer. 31:32. 

“The only begotten of the Father.” John 1:14. 

“The sons of God saw the daughters of men.” Gen. 6:2. 
“The love that God hath.” I John 4:16. 

“These six things doth the Lord hate.” Prov. 6:16. 

“The joy of the Lord.” Neh. 8:10. 

“It grieved him (God) at his heart” Gen. 6:6. 

“The Lord pitieth them that fear him.” Ps. 103:13. 

“I (God) feared the wrath of the enemy.” Deut. 32:27. 
“The Lord is a jealous God.” Ex. 34:14. 

“The fierce anger of the Lord.” Num. 25:4. 

“With the Lord there is mercy.” Ps. 130:7. 

“Vengeance is mine . . . saith the Lord.” Rom. 12:19. 

If the readers of the above word picture of the 
Bible God, pieced together from that “Inspired” (?) 
book, fail to get a laugh out of it, they must be devoid 
of all sense of humor. 

In all my reading, which has been considerable, I 
have never found anything, in any language, to com¬ 
pare with the Bible in self-contradictions, false his¬ 
tories, unscientific, ludicrous, fabulous, trifling and 
silly stories. It has “Jack and the Bean Stalk” badly 
beaten; and “Arabian Nights” are completely out¬ 
classed. 


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SOME ABSURD STORIES 


“In the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth. And the earth was without form and void.” 
Genesis 1:1, 2. How could the earth be without form, 
or be void? Read the first and second chapters of 
Genesis. Read it as you should any book; use your 
reason, your thinking faculties, and see how abso¬ 
lutely absurd and ridiculous the story of creation 
appears. 

According to the Bible, the earth, sun and stars are 
but six thousand years old. Science has proven this 
claim to be false. Driven from their old position, 
theologians have said that each day of the creation 
period was a thousand years, but that will not clear 
up the discrepency, by several hundred million years. 
Then, too, who ever knew of “grass and trees” grow¬ 
ing without the light of sun? 

The method God used in creating woman, is most 
interesting. From the fact that so many men believe 
this story, I am inclined to think there must have been 
a mistranslation. It should read: “The Lord God 
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he took 
out his back-bone and made a woman of it.” Perhaps, 
this is the reason the church has fought so hard to 
keep women from speaking “without their husbands 
consent.”—The secret might leak out. There must 
have been another “deep sleep” and a surgical opera- 


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tion in the ‘‘Land of Nod,” for it was there that Cain 
“found his wife.” 

The excuse, offered by our Christian friends, for 
believing the absurd story of the “fall of man,” and 
for opposing the theory of evolution, is the fact that, 
to deny this Babylonian fable, would destroy the 
dogma of the atonement. 

The story of the “talking snake,” found in the third 
chapter of Genesis, makes God out a liar. According 
to the Bible, Adam did not die the day he ate of the 
“forbidden fruit,” but lived to be a very old man. 

No one with an ounce of gray matter and the 
energy to use it, can believe the story of the flood, 
found in the sixth, seventh and eighth chapters of 
Genesis. 

The Quail Story 

The sixteenth chapter of Exodus relates the story 
of manna and quails. This story presents many 
interesting features. If the reader will use a pencil 
and paper, and try a few simple problems in arith¬ 
metic, he will find it very convincing. 

“There went forth a strong wind from the Lord and 
brought quails from the sea.” Must have exhausted 
the supply to feed the “Wandering Jew,” as, “sea” 
quails have not been seen since the days of Moses. 
The first edition of the storv went like “hot cakes” 

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and the authors had to publish another to supply the 
demand for religious fiction. Bible lies still head 
the list of “Best sellers.” And those who buy are 
badly sold. 


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Now let us turn to the eleventh chapter of Nunn 
bers, 31st verse: “And let them fall by the camp, as 
it were, a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a 
day’s journey on the other side, round about the 
camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face 
of the earth. And the people stood up all that day, 
and all night, and all the next day, and they gathered 
the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten hom¬ 
ers.” What a useless waste of fresh meat in a coun¬ 
try, where it is so hot, it is said, “When a man dies, 
they have to bury blankets with him to keep him warm 
in the next world.” 

The Lord commanded that quails should be eaten 
for a month, and “Until thev came out of their nos- 
trils.” The supply was great, “He that gathered 
least, gathered” eighty bushels. A circle, sixty-six 
miles across, was covered to a depth of three feet, 
seven inches. Loaded on freight trains, moving at 
fifteen miles an hour, it would require thirty-two 
years for this supply of quails to pass a given point. 
The trains required to move the game, would circle 
the earth at the equator, eight times. 

But the Lord “repented” again: “And while the 
flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, 
the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, 
and the Lord smote the people with a very great 
plague.” But you must believe this story; if you do 
not, you are an infidel. 


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Balaam’s Ass 

Numbers 22:20-30, contains another interesting 
fable. We have already referred to the talking 
“snake” in the Garden of Eden, but we find here, the 
story of a talking “ass.” The Bible is silent as to the 
name of this ass; but, as history records the names 
of many talking asses, and, as the country is full of 
them today, I do not question the possibility of the 
genuineness of the phenomenon in Balaam’s day. 
Notable examples of Asanine Verbosity, are those 
loquacious asses who believe and teach the silly and 
absurd stories of the Bible. It is this class who deny 
the theory of evolution; who advocate the lining up 
against a stone wall, before a firing squad, all evolu¬ 
tionists and scientists who believe in Nature’s unvary¬ 
ing laws, and who deny the existence or intervention 
of the Bible God. The church tells you to “believe, 
or be damned.” I answer, “I’ll be ‘damned’ if I do.” 

Jonah and the Whale 

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Jonah’s experience has never been duplicated by 
disciples of Isaak Walton. His remarkable encounter 
with a whale, is a “whale” of a story. The account is 
found in the first and second chapter of Jonah. As 
most homes are provided with a copy of the Bible, it 
is not necessary to repeat the story here. If the reader 
does not happen to have a Bible, he can find one in 
any first class hotel, as the Gideon Society has made 
it possible for all weary travelers to have a little fic¬ 
tion to read before retiring. The chambermaids keep 
these Bibles dusted and placed at the convenience of 


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the guests, but I have never found any of these Bibles 
which show the slightest evidence of having been 
used. 

I have never found but one man, not a Christian, 
who believed it was possible for Jonah to have been 
swallowed by a whale, and after three days delivered, 
safe and well, upon dry ground. This man, a sea 
captain, said there was a time when he did not believe 
the story. But while on a voyage around the Horn, 
some years ago, he had as passengers on his boat, an 
old man and his grand-son. They were passionately 
fond of each other. The grand-father died on the 
Atlantic as they neared the Horn, and it was neces¬ 
sary to bury the body at sea. Not having any shot to 
weight the body with, a grind stone, some gas pipe 
and a hoop was attached to the canvas bag. No 
sooner had the body been lowered into the sea, when 
the young man plunged over board and was thought 
to have drowned. 

A few days later, while sailing up the Pacific coast, 
the sailors caught a large shark. The fish was hauled 
aboard and opened. Much to the surprise of all, they 
found that the fish had swallowed both men. They 
had mounted the grindstone on the gas pipe and were 
sharpening the hoop to cut their way out to liberty. 
‘‘Since then,” said the old salt, with an oath, “I have 
believed the story of Jonah and the whale.” 

The story by the captain, is as reasonable as the 
one told by Jonah, and I know both stories are fables. 
There may be some true history in the Bible; but, 


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“The truth itself, is not believed, from one who often 
has deceived.” 

Exploits of Samson 

If Samuel wrote the biography of Samson, he 
should be awarded first prize as the champion liar. 
Although, there are many close competitors who had a 
hand in the authorship of the Bible. 

For a full account of the doings of this man of 
mighty strength, the reader is referred to the thir¬ 
teenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of 
Judges. 

Parts of this story, like many others found in the 
Bible, are so obscene, particularly the introduction, 
beginning with the second verse of the thirteenth 
chapter, and the manner in which the answer to his 
riddle was made known to the young men, as stated 
in the fourteenth chapter and eighteenth verse, that I 
must omit them in reviewing the exploits of this 
“mighty man of God.” 

Samson’s birth was foretold by an angel; there 
were a number of impossible things happened; he was 
proclaimed as a deliverer of Israel, and when he was 
born, “The child grew and the Lord blessed him.” 

In the course of events he set out to obtain a wife 
from among the Philistines. Near the vineyards a 
young lion roared and the “spirit of the Lord came 
upon him and he rent the lion as he would a kid.” 
In passing the place of this encounter sometime after¬ 
ward, he discovered that a swarm of bees were living 
in the carcass—something bees never do. This fur- 


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nishes a subject for a riddle and he makes a wager 
that it cannot be solved. But when he loses the bet, 
the “spirit of the Lord came upon him” and he mur¬ 
ders thirty men to pay the wager—“thirty sets of 
raiments.” 

After this transaction, his father-in-law takes his 
wife from him. Samson flies into a rage, and catch¬ 
ing three hundred foxes, sets fire to their tails and set 
them loose in the corn, vineyards and olive trees, de¬ 
stroying all. When the Philistines learned the cause 
of this act they burned Samson’s wife and her father 
“with fire.” 

Samson swears vengeance on the Philistines, “And 
he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter.” 
Then he went to dwell on the top of a rock in Etam. 
Now war commences in earnest. Three thousand 
attack him, but the spirit of the Lord came upon him 
and he slew a thousand men with a “new jawbone of 
an ass.” After the lone hero of this battle had cast 
away the jawbone he was thirsty and thought he would 
die, but “the Lord clave a hollow in the jawbone” and 
water came out to quench Samson’s thirst, “and his 
spirit was revived.” 

He then visited a harlot in Gaza; told her that his 
strength was in his hair. Delilah put him to sleep on 
her knee, shaved off the long curls of this “Nazerite,” 
and her friends put out his eyes and cast him in 
prison. This story is very much like a page from the 
Police Gazette. 


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But the Lord was still his friend. And when three 
thousand men and women had him brought into the 
house to make sport for them, he called upon the Lord 
to give his strength back. His request was granted 
and he pulled down the two main pillars, causing the 
house to fall, killing three thousand people. Nice 
story, isn’t it? 

Joshua 

The book of Joshua abounds with interesting 
fabrications. The taking of Jericho, an account of 
which appears in the sixth chapter, deserves attention. 

Jericho, a walled city, was beseiged by the children 
of Israel. “Joshua called the priests, and said to 
them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven 
priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the 
ark of the Lord. The seven priests passed on before 
the Lord, and blew with the trumpets.” They 
marched around the city once and returned to camp. 
Not a word was spoken. This was repeated for seven 
days, and on the seventh day the city was “Compassed 
seven times.” Then the people shouted and “The 
walls fell down flat, and they utterly destroyed all 
that was in the city, men and women, old and young, 
and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the 
sword.” No, they did not destroy all—“Only Rahab 
the harlot shall live.” Easy victory. 

One more reference to this miracle worker of the 
Lord. In the tenth chapter, beginning with the twelfth 
verse we read: “Then spake Joshua to the Lord in 
the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites be- 


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fore the children of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon 
Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. The 
sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people 
had avenged themselves. So the sun stood still in the 
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a 
whole day. And there was no day like that before it 
or after it.” 

“All things are possible with the Lord,” saith the 
priests of Christendom. But thinking men and worn- « 
en, know these stories are pious lies. Belief in the 
supernatural, has been responsible for religious 
hysteria, intolerance, and horrible persecutions. 

King Jehoram had seven sons and the youngest was 
two years older than his father. II Chronicles 21:20; 
22 : 1 , 2 . 

The Lord sent hornets to drive out the Hittites, 
Hivites and Canaanites. Exodus 23:28. 

The Lord shaved .with a razor that was hired. 
Isaiah 7:20. 

Aaron and his sons were consecrated by touching 
the tip of their right ear, the thumb of the right hand 
and the great toe of the right foot with the blood of a 
ram. Leviticus 8:22, 23, 24. If they had known 
how to write, I suppose they would have “signed their 
names in blood,” following this interesting initiation 
into the secret order of the Lord. 

Gideon destroyed the army of the Midianites by an 
unusual bit of strategy—three hundred men armed 
with trumpets, pitchers and lamps. Judges 7:16-25. 


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Job was a perfect man, upright before the Lord, 
but because of an argument the Lord had with the 
devil, he “sorely afflicted” the innocent man. And 
ignorant people have been “afflicted” with the story, 
for more than two thousand years. Read Job, first 
and second chapter. 

The story of the life of Jesus, is a “crazy-patch” 
work, made up of fables, myths, and purloined stories 
of other so-called holy men, who lived ages before the 
Christian era. Most people are familiar with the 
New Testament, and it is not necessary to repeat the 
unnatural and unbelievable stories here. Those who 
have the courage to investigate for themselves, should 
read, “The Christ,” by Remsburg and “Sixteen Cru¬ 
cified Saviors,” by Kersey Graves. “Science and 
Religion,” by Prof. John Draper, is another book all 
lovers of truth should read. 

John’s Nightmare 

If there ever was a psychopath, the author of 
Revelations was one. He “saw things.” At least he 
tells us he did. No man in pre-Volstead days, ever 
saw the equal of it. 

In the fourth chapter, he speaks of the throne in 
heaven, twenty-four seats, twenty-four elders, white 
robes and gold crowns. Out of the throne proceeded 
lightnings, and thunderings and voices. Before the 
throne was a sea of glass, and around the throne were 
four beasts, full of eyes, before and behind. One 
was like a lion, another like a calf, another like a man 


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and the fourth was like a flying eagle. They each 
had six wings and they were full of eyes within, and 
they rested neither day nor night, saying, “Holy, 
Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty.” An artist would be 
a wonder who could paint an accurate picture of these 
“beasts.” Revelations 4:4-8. 

In the midst of the elders stood a lamb having 
seven horns and seven eyes. They were some sort of 
“trained animals.” The lamb opened a seal and he 
saw a white horse; when the second seal was opened 
he saw a red horse; the third seal disclosed a black 
horse. Then he heard a voice saying, “A measure of 
wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for 
a penny,” and “See that thou hurt not the oil and 
wine.” Ah, the secret is out. “Wine.” 

Then the fourth seal was broken and he saw a pale 
horse. And that is a “horse” on John. The opening 
of the fifth seal revealed, under the altar, “The souls 
of them that were slain for the word of God, whose 
robes were white, having been washed in the blood of 
the lamb.” Color blindness is a strange affliction. 
Religious fanatics keep the “Fountains filled with 
blood.” Francis on St. Bartholomew’s night, Alve in 
the Lowlands, Tilla at Magdenburg, the Covenanters 
at Phillipspaugh, Cromwell at Drogheda, the Anabap¬ 
tists of Munster and William the Second, reflect the 
fields of Moab; and each have found their authority 
in the un-“Holy” Bible. 

When the sixth seal was broken there was a great 
earthquake. Someone was careless in opening that 


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bottle. The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, 
and the moon turned red like blood. And the stars 
of heaven fell upon the earth. The cork must have 
hit poor John in the eye. 

The heavens departed as a scroll, and every moun¬ 
tain and island was moved out of their places. Then 
“everybody hid themselves in dens, to hide them¬ 
selves from Him that sitteth upon the throne and from 
the wrath of the lamb.” Must have been a “rough 
house” and some rowdy shot out the lights. 

In the seventh chapter John gives us some interest¬ 
ing information on the science of geography and 
astronomy. He tells us that four angels stood on the 
“four corners of the earth holding the four winds 
that they shall not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, 
nor on any tree.” I never found the earth square, but 
perhaps it may become so, some day, when religious 
ignorance and bigotry is overcome. But that “seal” 
has not yet been broken. When I was living out in 
Kansas, I had reason to believe that some of John’s 
angels, who were to “hold the winds,” had left their 
post of duty. 

He tells us there was no night there. They had no 
need of the sun, nor of a candle. Yet, everybody, 
animals included, “served Him day.and night.” 

“There came out of the smoke, locusts, which were 
given great power. The shape of the locusts was like 
unto horses prepared for battle. On their heads were 
crowns of gold; their faces were like the faces of men, 
and their hair was like the hair of women, and their 


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teeth like the teeth of a lion. They had breast-plates 
of iron, and the sound of their wings was like chariots 
and many horses running to battle.” 0, what a sight. 
They had “tails like scorpions,” and there were 
“stings in their tails.” Some locusts. 

He saw horses with lions’ heads; brimestone, fire 
and smoke came out of their mouths; their tails were 
like serpents and had heads. What a “double 
header!” Could “catch ’em, cornin’ an goin’.” 

The story of the great red dragon, in the twelfth 
chapter, is just as reasonable. There are millions of 
people who swallow it all, line, hook, sinker and 
bobber. Ask them what it all means, and they will 
usually say: “There are the hidden things of God.” 
Some, however have it all “doped” out, but I have 
never learned what kind of “dope” they use. It must 
be a hypnotic potion administered by the “Doctors of 
Divinity.” Those who administer such narcotics 
should be barred from further practice. 


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THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE 

“There is a beautiful harmony between the prin¬ 
ciples of science and the teachings of the Bible.”— 
Rev. Dr. Cheever. 

Let the Bible prove that Dr. Cheever is wrong. 

Astronomy 

“God created the heaven and the earth. The earth 
was without form and void; darkness was upon the 
face of the deep. And God said let there be light: 
and there was light. God divided the light from the 
darkness. And He called the light Day, and the dark¬ 
ness Night. And the evening and the morning were 
the first day.” 

“And God made two great lights; the greater light 
to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: 
he made the stars also. And the evening and the 
morning were the fourth day.” Genesis 1:2, 3, 16, 
17. 

It appears from the above that the earth was 
created before the sun, moon and stars. And that 
there was light and darkness, day and night before 
the sun and moon were “set in the firmament.” 

“Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, 
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood 
still and the moon stayed. The sun stood still in the 
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a 


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whole day.” Joshua 10:12, 13. Does this agree with 
Astronomy? 

“And the Lord will do this thing he hath spoken: 
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, 
which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten 
degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, 
by which degrees it was gone down.” 

I would not recommend that persons afflicted with 
a weak heart, read the above. Too hearty laughing 
might prove a serious matter for their health. 

Geology 

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, 
and herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding 
fruit: and it was so. (Before the sun was created.) 
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly 
the moving creatures that hath life, and the fowl that 
fly above the earth. And God said, Let the earth bring 
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and 
creeping things, and the beast of the earth after his 
kind: and it was so. And God said, Let us make man 
in our image, after our likeness.” Genesis 1:1, 11, 
20, 24, 26. 

All this and much more in less than a week. No 
wonder God had to rest on the seventh day. Geology 
teached that millions of years had passed, in the his¬ 
tory of the earth, before vegetables and animal life 
appeared. 

“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 
the sea, and all that in them is.” Exodus, 20:11. 


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Geography 

“The world shall be stable, that it be not moved.” 
II Chronicles 16:30. 

“Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it 
should not be moved forever.” Psalms, 104:5. 

“For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he 
hath set the world upon them.” I Samuel 2:8. 

“I saw four angels standing on the four corners of 
the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the 
wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, 
nor on any tree.” Revelations 7:1. 

“The devil taketh him up into an exceeding high 
mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the 
world.” Matthew 4:8. 

“And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; 
and from thence it was parted, and became into four 
heads. The name of the first is Pison, which com- 
passeth the whole of the land of Havilah, where there 
is gold. The name of the second river is Gihon, it 
compasseth the whole of Ethiopia. The name of the 
third river is Hiddekel: which goeth toward the east 
of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.” 
Genesis 2:10, 11, 13, 14. 

“A city of Samaria, which is called Sychar.” (No 
city by that name.) John 4:5. 

“These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jor¬ 
dan, where John was baptizing.” (Bethabara is a 
suburb of Jerusalem, is not beyond Jordan.) John 
1:28. 

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“The same came therefore to Philip, which was of 
Bethsaida of Galilee.” (Bethsaida is in Perea.) 
John 12:21. 

These are just a few quotations to prove that God 
did not know very much about geography. 

Botany 

It would appear from Genesis 1:12, 13, 16, 19 
that vegetation did very well in those days without 
the light and heat of the sun. 

“Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy 
wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I com¬ 
manded thee, Saying thou shalt not eat of it; cursed 
is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
it all the days of thy life.” Genesis 3:17. 

“Thoms also thistles shall it bring forth to thee; 
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.” Genesis 
3:18. 

“He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the 
cypress and the oak, which he strengthened for him¬ 
self among the trees of the forest: He planteth an 
ash, and the rain doth nourish it.” Isaiah 44:14. 

In Genesis 30:37 the Bible calls the hazel, a tree. 

“And the chestnut trees.” (Chestnut trees never 
grew there.) Ezekiel 31:8. 

“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and 
die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth 
much fruit.” (If it dies there would be no crop.) 
John 12:24. 


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Zoology 

“And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and 
his sons’ wives with him, into the ark. Of clean 
beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and fowls, 
and of everything that creepedi upon the earth. There 
went in two and two unto Noah into the ark.” (Noah 
must have been a fiend for fresh air, one small win¬ 
dow was the only ventilation.) Genesis 7:7, 8, 9. 

“Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven footed, 
and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye 
eat.” Leviticus 11:3. 

The coney and hare chew the cud, but they are not . 
cloven footed; therefore, they were unclean. The 
camel chews the cud and is cloven footed, but it was 
unclean. God gives a lot of interesting advice in this 
chapter. 

“And the Lord said unto the serpent, “Upon thy 
belly thou shalt go, and dust shalt thou eat all the 
days of thy life.” (How did it navigate before— 
does it eat dust?) Genesis 3:14. 

In the foregoing pages I have referred to the talk¬ 
ing snake and the talking ass. 

Ethnology 

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and 
also after that, when the sons of God came in unto 
the daughters of men, and they bare children to 
them.” Genesis 6:4. (I wonder how many sons of 
God there were?) 


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“And all the days that Adam lived were nine hun¬ 
dred and thirty years: and he died.” Genesis 5:5. 
(People did not live as long in ancient times as they 
do today.) 

“And the whole earth was of one language and one 
speech.” The Lord came down to see how the people 
were getting along with a certain city and a great 
tower, and found too much progress was made, so he 
confused their tongues, mixed them all up. Since 
that time we have had Virginia English, New England 
English and Texas English. Read Genesis 11:1-10. 

However, it .appears from the tenth chapter of 
Genesis, fifth verse, that there were other tongues 
before the building of the tower of Babel. The 
twentieth and thirty-first verse, support this fact. 

Physiology 

It required but seven months and three days for 
the earth to dry, after the mighty flood which “cov¬ 
ered all the hills and mountains under the heavens.” 
There was so much water that “all the fish died.” The 
average evaporation of water is five thousand gallons 
daily, per acre. Get your pencil out again and see if 
a Rocky Mountain goat could “find rest for the sole 
of his foot today, at the normal rate of evaporation.” 
It speaks badly for our day of knowledge and com¬ 
mon sense, when we find so many people who claim 
they can swallow the flood and eat the ark at one 
sitting. 

“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply 
thy sorrow,” (deleted). Genesis 3:16. 


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“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise,” 
(deleted). Matthew 1:18. 

“And all the first born males by the number of 
names, from a month old and upward, were twenty 
and two thousand two hundred and threescore and 
thirteen.” Numbers 3:43. (128 children to each 

mother—figure it out for yourself.) 

Chemistry 

“And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord com¬ 
manded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the 
waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, 
and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters 
that were in the river were turned to blood.” Exodus 
7:20. 

“But his wife looked back from behind him, and 
she became a pillar of salt.” Genesis 19:26. 

“And he took the calf (golden calf) which they had 
made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to pow¬ 
der, and strewed it upon the water, and made the 
children of Israel drink it.” Exodus 32:20. 

Physics 

“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for 
a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And 
it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the 
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.” Gen¬ 
esis 9:13, 14. 

“And I will remember my covenant which is be¬ 
tween me and you and every living creature of all 


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flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood 
to destroy all flesh.” Genesis 9:15. 

“And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; 
and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong 
east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, 
and the waters were divided. And the children of 
Israel went into the midst of the sea upon dry ground: 
and the waters were a wall unto them on their right 
hand, and on their left.” Exodus 14:21, 22. 

“And they said, Go to, let us build a tower whose 
top may reach unto heaven.” Genesis 11:4. 

Mathematics 

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these 
three are one.” I John 5:7. (Servitus was burned at 
the stake because he could not understand this prob¬ 
lem in arithmetic.) 

“All the generations from Abraham to David are 
fourteen generations; and from David until the carry¬ 
ing away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and 
from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are 
fourteen generations.” Matthew 1:17. 

“The whole congregation together was forty and 
two thousand three hundred and threescore.” Ezra 
2:64. (Ezra misses his guess by 12,542.) 

Prophecies 

Bible prophets were poor guessers. However, we 
must admit that they described, with some degree of 
accuracy, a number of historic events, after they had 


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transpired. They were a jealous lot, a sort of seer 
trust. They told fortunes and divined for “sheckles,” 
“talents,” etc. If an independent medium started up 
shop, they were accused of having “familiar spirits,” 
and ordered “stoned” or “burned.” 

“Babylon shall be as when God overthrew Sodom 
and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither 
shall it be dwelt in from generation: wild beast of the 
desert shall lie there,” etc. Isaiah 13:19-22. (Not 
fulfilled.) 

“Behold, Damascus, it is taken away from being a 
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” Isaiah 17:1. 
(Still a flourishing city.) 

“Thus saith the Lord, I will bring Tyrus Nebuchad¬ 
nezzar king of Babylon, with horses and chariots, and 
with horsemen, and with companies, and much people. 
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the 
field,” etc., etc. Ezekiel 17:7-14. (Not fulfilled.) 

“I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and 
desolate.” Ezekiel 29:10-12. (Not fulfilled as were 
hundreds such prophecies.) 

“Jeroboam shall die by the sword.” Amos 7:11. 
(Not fulfilled.) II Kings 14:27-29, completely dis¬ 
agrees with Amos. 

“As for these things which ye behold, the days will 
come, in the which there shall not be left one stone 
upon another.” Luke 21:6. (This prophecy was 
written at least a hundred years after the destruction 
of Jerusalem.) 


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“In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall 
be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,” 
etc. Mark 13:23-26. (A false prophecy.) 

If I should give space to all the false prophecies, 
and those recorded hundreds of years after events 
referred to had transpired, it would require a volume 
to set it down. 

Miracles 

Belief in the supernatural keeps religion alive, 
supports the clergy and plucks the pockets of honest, 
but ignorant people, of billions of dollars annually. 
The church sings: “Salvation is free,” but we know 
it is a most gigantic graft and swindle. 

Miracles have never occurred. There is an un¬ 
varying law of Nature, which is responsible for every 
manifestation, or phenomenon, both physical and 
mental. Obedience to this law will enable each one 
to be his own savior. Science and liberal education 
is pointing the way, but the church tries to barricade 
the way with crosses, snakes and devils of mythology. 

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 
Adam, and he slept: and he took out one of his ribs, 
and closed up the flesh, and the rib, which the Lord 
God had taken from man, made he a woman.” 
Genesis 2:21, 22. 

Genesis 7:11-20 gives an account of the flood. 

Genesis 30:37-39 is an explanation of how Jacob 
cheated his father-in-law out of his cattle by use of 
the pealed-stick hocus pocus. 

Exodus 14:21, 22 gives the scientific methods used 


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to divide the waters of the sea to enable the children 
of Israel to cross on “dry land.” 

Numbers 11:31 describes the tidal-wave of “sea 
quails.” 

“And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine 
hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on 
the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled 
from it.” Exodus 4:2, 3. For other good snake 
stories, read Numbers 21:6-9; Exodus 7:9-12, 20; 
Exodus 8:6, 9. 

The ghost story in connection with the birth of 
Jesus, is most interesting. It is found in Matthew 
1:18-25. 

The miracle of feeding the multitude with five 
loaves and two fish, and of having twelve baskets left 
over, is found in Matthew 14:15-21. 

The miracle of raising Lazarus, is found in John 
11:17-44. 

I might quote hundreds of other verses in this con¬ 
nection, but this should be quite sufficient to prove 
that those who make a sort of fetish out of the Bible 
can believe almost anything. 

The remarkable thing about it is, that the good 
church people can believe impossible things, pro¬ 
vided they do not know who wrote them, nor when 
they were written. If the Bible had stated that Jonah 
swallowed the whale, instead of the whale swallowing 
Jonah, Christians could believe it quite as readily. 
The world would be far better off if we could live 
more in the present, and less in the dead past. Mira¬ 
cles never happen. 


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MORALITY 


“The word ‘moral’ does not even occur in the Bible, 
nor even the idea.”—Remsburg. 

The reader has been led, by easy stages, from sim¬ 
ple contradictions, silly and absurd stories, unscien¬ 
tific statements, etc., to the most serious charge 
against the Bible. What has preceded, might be suf¬ 
ficient to remove the claim that it is the “Inspired 
word of God,” and that it is a “perfect book, without 
blemish,” but we must proceed further and prove to 
all honest, thinking men and women, that it is an im¬ 
moral book. Whether the reader agrees with the 
writer or not, in all fairness to the subject, let me urge 
that the following pages be carefully examined. 
Where the Bible text is necessarily omitted, because 
of its vulgarity, reference to book, chapter and verse 
is given, for the convenience of the reader. 

Lying 

“And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, 
that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And 
there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord 
and said I will persuade him. I will be a lying spirit 
in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said. Thou 
shalt persuade him, go forth, and do so.” I Kings 
22 : 20 - 22 . 


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“And if a prophet be deceived when he hath spoken 
a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet.” 
Ezekiel 14:9. 

“And for this cause God shall send them strong 
delusion, that they shall believe a lie.” II Thessaloni- 
ans 2:11. 

“For in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die.” (But the eating “thereof,” did not even 
give Adam a belly-ache.) Genesis 2:17. It appears 
that the serpent told the first truth in the Bible. 

“And ye shall know my breach of promise.” Num¬ 
bers 14:34. 

“And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my 
sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took 
Sarah.” Genesis 20:2. 

“And the men of the place asked him of his wife; 
and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, 
She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place 
should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to 
look upon.” Genesis 26:7. 

“And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy 
first born.” Genesis 27:19. 

“And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in 
thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire 
of the Lord by him, saying, shall I recover of this 
disease? So Hazael went to meet him, and took a 
present with him, even of every good thing of Damas¬ 
cus, forty camels burden, and came and stood before 
him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath 
sent me to thee, saying, Shall 1 recover of this disease? 


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And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou 
mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath 
shewed me that he shall surely die. (Big price to 
pay a medium for a wilful lie.) II Kings 8:15. 

“And when he was alone, asked him about the 
parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given 
to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but 
unto them that are without, all things are done in 
parables: that seeing they may see and not perceive; 
and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest 
at any time they should be converted and their sins 
should be forgiven them.” (Nice doctrine from the 
“loving” Jesus.) Mark 4:10-12. 

“But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, 
being crafty, I caught you with guile.” II Corinthians 
12:16. 

“To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain 
the weak: I am made all things to all men. And this 
I do for the gospel’s sake.” I Corinthians 9:22-23. 

“For if the truth of God hath more abounded 
through my lie unto glory; why yet am I also judged 
as a sinner.” Romans 3:7. 

Bear in mind, reader, the above is only a small part 
of the Bible texts advocating lying, or offering a 
feeble excuse for so doing. And “verily, I say unto 
you,” the woods are full of pious liars unto this day. 

Cheating 

“And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, 
with that same red pottage; for I am faint: And 
Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And 


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Esau said, Behold I am at the point to die: and what 
profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, 
Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and 
he sold his birthright unto Jacob.” Genesis 25:30-33. 

“And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger 
cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before 
the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might 
conceive among the rods. But when the cattle were 
feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, 
and the stronger Jacob’s.” Genesis 30:41, 42. In¬ 
decent and impossible story. 

“Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them 
in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And 
Laban searched the tent, but found them not.” 
Genesis 31:34. Dirty trash to record in a “sacred” 
Bible. Read from the 25th verse to the 36th, if the 
whole story is required. 

“And I will give this people favor in the sight of 
the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when 
ye go, ye shall not go empty: But every woman shall 
borrow of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth 
in her house, jewels or silver, and jewels of gold, 
and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, 
and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the 
Egyptians.” Exodus 3:21, 22. This was the com¬ 
mand of a “loving” God. The same command is 
repeated in the eleventh chapter. The twelfth chap¬ 
ter, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth verses, tell us the in¬ 
structions were obeyed to the letter. 


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“Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself; 
thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, 
that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an 
alien.” Deuteronomy 14:21. This is said to have 
been the command of the Lord God. All civilized 
countries have statute laws prohibiting such practice. 

Stealing 

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,” etc. 
“And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both 
of men and of beasts,” etc. “And the Lord spake 
unto Moses, saying, And levy a tribute unto the Lord.” 
Numbers 31:1, 11, 25, 28. Read the entire chapter; 
it is the most heartless thing in literature. And the 
Lord shared in the spoils. 

“But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass 
and iron are consecrated unto the Lord: and they 
shall come into the treasury of the Lord.” Joshua 
6:19. The Lord again shares in the loot. Read the 
whole chapter. The church is still plundering the 
people. 

“And David smote the land, and left neither man 
nor woman alive, and he took away the sheep, and 
the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the ap¬ 
parel, and returned.” I Samuel 27:9. David, the 
“man after God’s own heart,” was at the head of 
the worst band of murderers and highway robbers 
the world has ever known. 

“When thou comest into thy neighbor’s vineyard, 
then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own 


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pleasure; when thou comest into the standing com 
of thy neighbor, then thou mayest pluck the ears 
with thine hand.” Deuteronomy 23:24, 25. 

“Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy 
his soul when he is hungry.” Proverbs 6:30. 

“And of him that taketh away thy goods ask them 
not again.” (Enjoining submission to robbery.) Luke 
6:30. 

Slavery 

“Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which 
thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are 
round about you; Of them shall ye buy bondmen 
and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the 
strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye 
buy, and of their families that are with you, which 
they begat in your land: and they shall be your pos¬ 
session.” Leviticus 25:44, 45. 

“If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall 
serve. If he come in by himself, he shall go out by 
himself. If he were married, then his wife shall go 
out with him. If his master have given him a wife, 
and she have born him sons or daughters, the wife 
and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall 
go out by himself.” Exodus 21:2, 3, 4. But if 
the servant declines to leave his family and tells the 
master that he loves them, then the master shall back 
him up against a door, or a post, and bore a hole 
through the servant’s ear, and he shall be his slave 
forever. Read the 5th and 6th verses. 


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“And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew whal 
his younger son had done unto him. (Canaan had 
covered his father’s nakedness when he drunk.) “And 
he cursed Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be 
unto his brethren.” Genesis 9:24, 25. 

“Let as many servants as are under the yoke count 
their own masters worthy of all honour.” I Timothy 
6 : 1 . 

“Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own 
masters, and to please them well in all things; not 
answering again.” Titus 2:9. 

“Servants, be obedient to them that are your mas¬ 
ters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling.” 
Ephesians 6:5. 

“Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; 
not only to the good and gentle, but also to the for¬ 
ward.” I Peter 2:18. 

“If a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod, 
and he die under his hand, he shall be surely pun¬ 
ished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, 
he shall not be punished: for he is his money.” 
Exodus 21:20, 21. 

Is it any wonder the clergy opposed the freeing of 
slaves in this country? Is it any wonder the clergy 
helped drag Mr. Garrison through the streets of Bos¬ 
ton with a rope around his neck, when he advocated 
the freeing of the slaves? Is the Bible the word of 
God? If so, I will have nothing to do in common 
with such a God. Furthermore, I shall do all in 
my power, by voice and pen, to break the shackles 


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with which the church has enslaved the human intel¬ 
lect. The damnable influence of this “Inspired” 
Bible, has kept the world in mental slavery, and 
prevented intellectual development for thousands of 
years. 

Intemperance 

“And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever 
thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for 
wine, or for strong drink, and thou shalt rejoice.” 
Deuteronomy 14:26. 

“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to 
perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember 
his misery no more.” Proverbs 31:6, 7. 

“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for 
thy stomach’s sake.” I Timothy 5:23. 

“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy 
wine with a merry heart.” Ecclesiastes 9:7. 

“Corn shall make the young men cheerful, and 
new wine the maids.” Zechariah 9:17. 

“And they shall plant vineyards, and drink the 
wine thereof.” Amos 9:14. 

“And wine that maketh glad the heart of man.” 
Psalms 104:15. 

“Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and 
man.” Judges 9:13. 

“In the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine 
to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.” 
Numbers 28:7. 


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“And he will love thee, and bless thee, and thy 
wine.” Deuteronomy 7:13. 

“And thy presses shall burst with new wine.” 
Proverbs 3:10. 

“Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl all 
ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for 
it is cut off from your mouth. The drink offering 
is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests 
and the Lord’s ministers mourn. Gird yourselves, 
and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the 
alter: come lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers 
of my God. The drink offering is withholden from 
the house of your God. The vine is dried up.” Joel 
1:5-13. (They must have suffered from some sort 
of Volstead drought or blight.) 

“After that the Nazarite may drink wine.” Num¬ 
bers 6:20. 

“Bring them into the house of the Lord, into one 

j 

of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.” 
Jeremiah 35:2. 

“For John the Baptist came neither eating bread 
nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The 
son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye 
say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber.” 
Luke 7:33, 34. 

Jesus turned water into wine for use at the mar¬ 
riage feast. John 2:1-11. It was a common practice 
for those partaking of the “Lord’s supper” to become 
intoxicated. I Corinthians 11:20-34. 


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Vagrancy 

“Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of 
heaven.” Luke 6:20. 

“A rich man shall hardly enter the kingdom of 
heaven.” Matthew 19:23. 

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of 
a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom 
of God.” Mark 10:25. 

The disciples of Jesus were instructed to take 
no thought of the morrow; and they were to carry 
neither script nor purse. Preachers of today, how¬ 
ever, have an eye to the “main chance.” 

Ignorance 

“But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat of it.” Genesis 2:17. 

“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; 
but he that believeth not shall be damned.” (Those 
who have too much sense to believe such unjust, un¬ 
reasonable and impossible things are doomed.) Mark 
16:16. 

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philos¬ 
ophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after 
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” 
(Must have had some difficulty putting over the faith 
stuff.) Colossians 2:8. 

“If any man think he knoweth anything, he know- 
eth nothing yet as he ought to know.” I Corinthians 
7:2. This might very properly apply to those who 
“think” they know the Bible is the inspired word of 
God. 


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“In much wisdom is much grief: and he that in- 
creaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” (Is this the 
reason Martin Luther advocated the burning of all 
schoolteachers?) Ecclesiastes 1:18. 

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with 
God.” (If God wrote the Bible, this is easily under¬ 
stood—He was too ignorant to understand the “wis¬ 
dom” of the world.) I Corinthians 3:19. 

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowl¬ 
edge.” Proverbs 1:17. (It is the beginning of 
slavery.) 

“We are fools for Christ’s sake.” I Corinthians 
4:10. (Who is to blame?) 

“Bodily exercise profiteth little.” I Timothy 4:8. 
(If the clergy disregarded this text, there might be 
less immorality among members of their profession.) 

“Be not religious overmuch, neither make thy¬ 
self overwise,” is the sage advice of Solomon. And 
Solomon should know; he is said to have been the 
wisest of men; lived peacefully, so far as we know, 
with three hundred wives and seven hundred concu¬ 
bines. This is considered conclusive evidence of his 
wisdom, if not of his morality. 

“I am the Lord that maketh all things; that turneth 
wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge 
foolish.” Isaiah 44:24, 25. 


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Tyranny 

“Submit to tyrants,” is the teaching of the Bible. 

“There is no power but of God. Whosoever there¬ 
fore resisteth the power, . . . shall receive to 

themselves damnation.” Romans 13:1, 2. 

“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for 
the Lord’s sake; whether it be to the kind, as 
supreme.” I Peter 2:13. 

“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot 
for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, 
stripe for stripe.” Exodus 21:24, 25. 

Hundreds of texts might be quoted in this connec¬ 
tion. 

Intolerance 

“If thy brother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or 
thy wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is thine 
own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and 
serve other gods; thou shalt not consent unto him; 
neither shalt thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou 
spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: but thou shalt 
surely kill him; thine hand shalt be first upon him 
to death, and afterward the hand of the people.” 
Deuteronomy 13:6-9. 

“Set thou a wicked man over him; and let Satan 
stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, 
let him be condemned: and let his prayer become 
a sin.” Psalms 109:6, 7. 

“But he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark 
16:16. 


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‘‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 
prepared for the devil and his angels.” Matthew 
25:41. 

“And these shall go way into everlasting punish¬ 
ment: but the righteous into life eternal.” Matthew 
25:46. 

“If there come any unto you, and bring not this 
doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither 
bid him God speed.” II John 1:10. 

“If any man preach any other gospel unto you than 
that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Gala¬ 
tians 1:9. 

“I would they were even cut off which trouble 
you.” Galatians 5:12. 

This is the Christian spirit of many narrow minded 
bigots to this day. Dr. Paul Rader, “famous” Chi¬ 
cago evangelist, is reported to have said in an address 
at Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1922: “Evolutionists 
should face the firing squad. Had the American 
soldiers finished their task, come back to America, 
taken believers in evolution out of the colleges and 
slaughtered them, the world would be better off today. 
Tale, Harvard, Cornell—all universities—are full of 
’ivory tops’ and brass heads.” He should have 
said: “The Bible and the pulpit are full of sewer- 
gas, and intolerant fools.” 

Injustice to Women 

“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply 
thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt 
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy 


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husband, and he shall rule over thee.” Genesis 3:16. 

“And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid¬ 
servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.” 
Exodus 21:7. 

Leviticus 12:18, is too filthy to repeat here. It 
deals with “purification” of women, and “circum- 

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cision. 

“When thou goest forth to war, . . . And 

see among the captives a beautiful woman. 

Then thou shall bring her home to thine house; and 
she shall shave her head, and pare her nails” (to keep 
her from scratching out her “husband’s” eyes, I sup¬ 
pose). The remainder of this story is “deleted.” 
Read Deuteronomy 21:10-14. The “Soldiers of the 
Lord” are still leading captive beautiful women, who 
have to “shave their heads, and trim their nails,” 
as a mark of submission to a most damnable system. 

What does the reader think of God's divorce law? 
Read Deuteronomy 24:1. 

“Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; and, behold, 
if the daughters of Shilo come out to dance in the 
dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch 
you every man his wife of the daughters of Shilo, 
and go to the land of Benjamin.” Judges 21:21. 
Read the rest of the story. 

“Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil 
against thee out of thine own house, and I will take 
thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy 


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neighbor, and he shall” (remainder of the verse 
too bad for any book except the Bible). II Samuel 
12 : 11 . 

“Their children shall be dashed to pieces before 
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their 
wives”—(deleted). Isaiah 13:16. 

“Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, 
and pour out their blood with the force of the sword; 
and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and 
be widows.” Jeremiah 18:21. 

“I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to bat¬ 
tle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, 
and the women”—(You can find the rest of the verse 
is in the Bible.) Zechariah 14:2. 

Matthew 19:9-12, records a bit of interesting con¬ 
versation, supposed to have taken place between 
Jesus and his disciples. It will not be repeated here. 

The seventh chapter of I Corinthians, is on the 
use of marriage, etc. The whole chapter is vulgar. 

“Let your women keep silence in the churches: 
for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they 
are commanded to be under obedience, as-also saith 
the law. And if they will learn anything, let them 
ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for 
women to speak in the church.” I Corinthians 14:34, 
35. The old bachelor, Paul, had many queer ideas. 
His teachings were constantly used by the clergy in 
their fight against the rights of women. Infidels, 
Freethinkers, and Spiritualists, were the first cham¬ 
pions of the cause of women. 


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“Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, 
so let the wives be to their husbands in everything.” 
Ephesians 5:24. 

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjec¬ 
tion.” I Timothy 2:11-14. A man is a fool who 
thinks he can keep a woman from talking. And most 
any woman can talk better sense than men of Paul’s 
type. 

Peter, the old stumbling “rock,” gives a little 
advice to the women in I Peter 3:1-6. “Be in sub¬ 
jection to your husbands, do not plait the hair, wear 
ornaments or put on apparel,” is some of his advice. 

Honest, what does the reader think of this “In¬ 
spired” idea of women? 

Unkindness to Children 

“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt de¬ 
liver his soul from hell.” Proverbs 23:14. 

“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but 
the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” 
Proverbs 22:15. 

“The rod and reproof give wisdom.” Proverbs 
29:15. 

“Then shall his father and his mother lay hold 
on him,” etc. “And all men of his city shall stone 
him with stones, that he die.” Deuteronomy 21:16, 
19, 21. 

“Their children also shall be dashed to pieces be¬ 
fore their eyes.” Isaiah 13:16. 

“I will also send wild beasts among you, which 
shall rob you of your children,” etc. Leviticus 26:22. 


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“And Nathan departed unto his house. And the 
Lord struck the child, . . and it was very sick. 

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the 
child died.” II Samuel 12:15, 18. 

“There came forth little children out of the city, 
and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up thou 
bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, 
and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there 
came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare 
forty and two children of them.” II Kings 2:23, 24. 
Elisha must have been very sensitive about his bald 
head. I once heard a preacher say the Lord did 
the proper thing in sending the bears to destroy the 
children, and that he would like to see the same thing 
happen again—Possibly some little girl or boy may 
have called him a “sky pilot.” 

“I the Lord am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity 
of the fathers upon the children unto the third and 
fourth generation.” Exodus 20:5. 

“Their infants shall be dashed to pieces and their 
women with (deleted) shall be ripped up.” Hosea 
13:16. 

Cruelty to Animals 

“And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the 
Lord be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering 
of turtledoves or of young pigeons. And the priest 
shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off its head,” 
etc., etc. Leviticus 1:10-17. The third chapter 
gives further instruction regarding methods of sacri¬ 
ficing the flocks and herds. 


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On one occasion, Asa sacrificed seven hundred 
oxen and seven thousand sheep. David made an offer¬ 
ing of one thousand bullocks and two thousand sheep. 
At the dedication of the temple (which was never 
built) Solomon is said to have sacrificed one hun¬ 
dred and forty two thousand (142,000) domestic 
animals. I do not believe a word of it. 

“If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the 
way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be 
young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the 
young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam 
with the young. But thou shalt in any wise let the 
dam go, and take the young to thee; and that thou 
mayest prolong thy days.” Deuteronomy 22:6, 7. 
I wonder what God thinks of our laws prohibiting 
such practices in this country. 

Witchcraft 

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Exodus 
22:18. 

“A man also for a woman that hath a familiar 
spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to 
death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood 
shall be upon them.” Leviticus 20:27. 

These damnable texts, born in the jealous, selfish 
and cruel minds of self-constituted priests and 
prophets, or seers, were promulgated for the purpose 
of monopolizing the fortune-telling business, in that 
age of ignorance and superstition, and have been 
responsible for the most cruel torture, and death of 


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more than eight million innocent men, women and 
children. “Loving God!” “Inspired Bible!” Im¬ 
possible! 

If the woman of Endor was a “witch,” then Hul- 
dah, who passed upon the authenticity of the Bible 
for Josiah, was a witch.” II Kings 22:8-15; II 
Chronicles 34:18-24. 

Human Sacrifice 

“Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man 
shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both 
of man and of beast, and of the field of his posses¬ 
sions, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing 
is most holy unto the Lord. None devoted, which 
shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall 
surely be put to death.” Leviticus 27:28, 29. And 
this is the law of God! 

“Then the spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, 
and Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, 
If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of 
Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that what¬ 
soever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet 
me, when I return in peace from the children ol 
Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer 
it up for a burnt offering.” 

Jephthah was victor in the battle with the children 
of Ammon; the Lord delivered them into his hands, 
and upon his return to his house, his daughter, his 
only child came out to meet him. “And he did with 


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her according to his vow. And it was a custom in 
Israel.” For the full account of this case of human 
sacrifice, read, Judges 11:29-40. 

“And he said, Take now thy son Isaac, whom thou 
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer 
him there for a burnt offering.” Genesis 22:2. How¬ 
ever, God changed his mind in time to save the life 
of young Isaac, but not in time to cleanse the “Oster- 
more.” 

“Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, 
and we will hang them up unto the Lord. And they 
hanged them in the hill before the Lord.” II Samuel 
21:6-9. 

If we do not believe this, the church will call us 
infidels. The church may call me anything, and I 
refuse to believe. 

Cannibalism 

“And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the 
flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.” Leviticus. 
26:29. 

“And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the 
flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord 
thy God hath given thee.” Deuteronomy 28:53-57. 

“This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we 
may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 
So we boiled my son, and did eat him.” II Kings 
6:26-29. 

“And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their 
sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall 
eat every one the flesh of his friend.” Jeremiah 19:9. 


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“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their 
own children; they have their meet in the destruction 
of the daughters of my people.” Lamentations 4:10. 

“Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the 
midst of thee, and the sons shall eat the fathers.” 
Ezekiel 5:10. 

“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say 
unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, 
and drink his blood, ye have no life in ye.” John 
6:53. 

“His Holy Word,” “Sacred Scripture,” “Inspired 
Word,” “The Word of God.” How do you like it 
by this time? 

Murder and War 

“And he looked this way, and that way, and when 
he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, 
and hid him in the sand.” Exodus 2:12. 

“Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man 
his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to 
gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his 
brother, and every man his companion, and every 
man his neighbor.” Exodus 32:27. 

“And they warred against his midianites, as the 
Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. 
And the children of Israel took all the women of 
Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the 
spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all 
their goods. And Moses said unto them, Have ye 
saved all the women alive? Kill every male among 


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the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known 
man by—(deleted)—. But all the woman children, 
that have not known a man by—(deleted)—, keep 
alive for yourselves/’ Numbers 31:7-18. Read the 
whole chapter. 

“Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the 
land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, 
and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck 
down all their high places. For I have given you the 
land to possess it.” Numbers 33:52, 53. Sounds 
like “Me and Got.” 

A man was found gathering sticks on the Sabbath 
day. “And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall 
surely be put to death, all the congregation shall stone 
him. They stoned him with stones, and he died.” 
Numbers 15:32-36. 

The Lord speaking to Aaron, said: “This day will 
I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee 
upon the nations that are under the whole heaven. 
And he took all the cities at that time, and utterly 
destroyed the men, and the little ones, and the women, 
of every city, we left none to remain.” Deuteronomy 
2:25, 34. 

“And we smote him until none was left to him re¬ 
maining.” Read Deuteronomy 3:3-6. 

“And thou shalt consume all the people which the 
Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eyes shall have 
no pity upon them.” Deuteronomy 7:16. 


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“Of the cities which the Lord thy God doth give 
thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing 
that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy them; 
namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaan- 
ites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 
as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee/’ Deu¬ 
teronomy 20:16, 17. 

Joshua 6:2-21 relates the fall and sacking of 
Jericho. 

Joshua 8:18-28 gives us the account of the taking 
of Ai. 

Joshua 10: describes the destruction of many 
places, all by the command of “The Lord thy God.” 

Judges 3:15-20 describes the nauseating details of 
the murder of Eglon, king of Moab, by Ehud. “The 
Lord raised up this” murderer. 

“Now go smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that 
they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and 
woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel 
and ass.” I Samuel 15:3. 

II Kings 9:23-35 gives us a number of “Thus saith 
the Lord,” murders. The tenth chapter tells of the 
murder of seventy sons of Ahab, and that their heads 
were put in baskets. “And the Lord said unto Jehu, 
because thou hast done well in executing that which is 
right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of 
Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy 
children of the fourth generation shall sit on the 
throne of Israel.” 30th verse. 


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“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord 
deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his 
sword from blood.” Jeremiah 48:10. 

“Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little 
children, and women.” Ezekiel 9:6. 

“Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth 
my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.” Psalms 
144:1. 

The above quotations from the Old Testament, are 
only a few out of the many hundreds which might be 
used. However, they are quite sufficient to prove 
that this part of the “Holy Bible,” is largely a murder 
and war record of the “Chosen people of God.” But, 
after forty years of study, I am inclined to believe 
that not all the lies in this book are true. The Jews 

may not have been as bad as they are pictured. Let 
us hope so, at least. 

Let us now turn to the New Testament and learn 
what the “Prince of Peace” has to say on this subject. 

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: 
I came not to send peace, hut a sword.” Matthew 
10:34. 

“I am come to set man at variance against his 
father, and the daughter against her mother,” etc. 
Matthew 10:35, 36, 37. 

“Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? 
I tell you, Nay, hut rather division.” Luke 12:51. 

“I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will 
I if it be already kindled.” Luke 12:49. 


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“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; 
but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark 
16:16. 

“If any man come to me and hate not his father, 
and his mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, 
and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be 
my disciple.” Luke 14:26. 

“Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 
prepared for the devil and his angels.” Matthew 
25:41. 

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Does the Bible condone and teach war and mur¬ 
der? Religious fanatics, and hard hearted brutes of 
history, have all found their positions fortified from 
this unholy source. 

Three million lost their lives in a futile attempt 
to rescue a tomb from the Mosselmen. Ten million 
were slain during the Inquisition. Fourteen million 
were slain in Christian wars of the nineteenth century. 
Thirty million lost their lives in wars between Chris¬ 
tian nations during the first two decades of the twen¬ 
tieth century. 

Wars, tyranny and oppression of Christian nations, 
since the days of Constantine, have caused the death 
of more than 200,000,000 people. Let us scrap the 
cause of war before we scrap the implements of war. 

“Mark Twain” said, near the close of the last cen¬ 
tury, in speaking of what it had to offer the twentieth: 
“I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, 
bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored; with her 


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soul full of bigotry and meanness, her pockets full of 
boodle and her mouth full of pious hypocrites. Give 
her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.” 

We “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.” We 
arrest and confine in our prisons, a few scattering 
pigmies who preach their doctrine of sedition and 
anarchy, while we actually encourage, the one great 
menace to society and civilization, viz., the Christian 
Bible and the religious system of graft, bigotry, 
ignorance and superstition. Religions, which have 
been founded upon mythology, ignorance and super¬ 
stition of the ignorant past, have ever been a millstone 
about the necks of people to retard intellectual 
progress. 

A religion which agrees with science, and which 
appeals to reason, is the greatest need of the hour. 
A religion, upon whose teachings all races and na¬ 
tions can unite. A religion which will displace the 
horrible dogmas of an angry God and eternal punish¬ 
ment. A religion which will remove the pious hier¬ 
archical aristocracy, that live by systematically 
plucking the pockets of their ignorant subjects, of 
billions of dollars annually. A religion which will 
relegate to the limbo of the dead past, the war God 
of the Jews, and the mythical character, upon whose 
“blood” floats the antiquated bark of Christianity. 

Purgatories and hells below, 

Saint’s asylums and heavens above, 
Revengeful gods and devils, must go, 

To make room for a religion of love. 


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Polygamy 


Read Deuteronomy 21:15-17; 23:2, 25:5; II 
Samuel 12:7, 8. Abraham had two wives; Esau had 
two wives; Gideon had many wives; David had a 
score of wives; Solomon had three hundred wives and 
seven hundred concubines. Many texts could be 
quoted to prove that polygamy was taught and prac¬ 
ticed in Bible times. Most of these scripture passages 
are too vulgar to repeat here. 

Adultery and Obscenity 

The reader of mature years, is requested to read 
all the Bible references given under this subject. But 
keep them away from the children. 

Genesis 9:21; 38:13-26; 19:30-36. Leviticus 
15:16-33. Deuteronomy 22:14-16; 23:1-18. Judges 
14:18; 16:1-3; 19:1-30. Exodus 1:15-20. II Sam¬ 
uel 6:20. I Kings 1:4; 14:10. II Kings 9:8; 
18:27. Job 3:10, 11, 12; 31:9-11; 31:15; 40:16, 
17. Psalms 22:10. Proverbs 7:6-22; 23:27; 30:20. 
Ecclesiastes 4:11; 11:5. Isaiah 3:17; 20:2-4; 
26:18; 47:2. Solomon 1:13; 2:6; 7:1, 2, 3. Ezekiel 
4:9-12 (God’s bread recipe); 16:7-37; 20:26. Hosea 
1:2, 3; 3:1, 2; 4:12-14; 9:1, 13:16. And we are 
told this is the “Word of God.” 


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CONCLUSION 

This is the Bible many of our well-meaning, but 
ignorant, narrow and bigoted Christian friends, 
would have taught in the Public Schools of America. 
This is the Bible preacher and priest would have us 
accept as the “holy” and “inspired” word of God. 
This is the Bible they would have us send our children 
to church and Sunday school to study. 

The texts quoted and referred to, are found in the 
Authorized Version, of King James Bible, as it is 
commonly known. The preface to this Bible begins 
with a wilful and deliberate lie, by stating that the 
book was translated “out of the original tongues”; 
when, as a matter of fact, the diseased, drunken and 
most disreputable monarch that ever ruled over Eng- 
. land, King James, purchased this copy of the Bible 
from the Frober Printery of Hamberg, Germany, for 
7,200 pounds. The commission appointed by King 
James, did not “translate it out of the original 
tongues,” but “translated” it from the German. 

The whole fabric of the Christian religion is a 
crazy-patch-work of legends and falsehoods. The so- 
called “Holy Bible” has been responsible for a 
“holy” hell on earth, for the past seventeen hundred 
years. Christian wars, during this period, have re¬ 
sulted in the death of 200,000,000 people. And the 
end is not yet; until we dethrone the war god of the 


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Bible, and force the standing army of 200,000’ 
preachers and priests in America to seek “other fields 
of labor,” we may expect wars. 

God is not a selfish, sensual being, 

To be supplicated, coaxed and cajoled 
By a dominant clergy’s pleading, 

To bless, or damn, as he is told. 

From the testimony evinced herein, does it seem 
proper or right, that some $5,000,000,000 worth of 
church property in this country should be exempted 
from taxation? Such class favoritism encourages 
bigotry, ignorance and superstition; and adds $100,- 
000,000 taxes, annually, to those who possess taxable 
property. The churches of America expend each 
year, approximately $1,000,000,000 for upkeep, 
salaries, missions, real estate, buildings, parochial 
schools, publications, etc. It would seem more con¬ 
sistent, if this sum was turned into the treasury of the 
United States, to help liquidate the war debt, and to 
care for those disabled in wars, for which theology, 
more than any other cause, was responsible. 

Notwithstanding the fact that nearly fifty million 
people in this country are still under the hypnotic 
influence of the clergy, there are indications that the 
“leading strings” are breaking. The knowledge that 
Nature’s laws are omnipotent, omnipresent and im¬ 
mutable, will kill the gods and devils of mythology. 
And the knowledge that we make our own happiness 
or unhappiness as we obey or disobey Nature’s Laws, 
will shortly give us a religion of common sense. Per- 


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sonal responsibility, will replace the immoral doc¬ 
trine of “Vicarious Atonement.” Faith will be sup¬ 
planted by positive knowledge of our spiritual 
natures and responsibilities. 

Students of history have learned of the mytholog¬ 
ical origin of the Christian Bible. They have dis¬ 
covered that there have been twenty-seven so-called 
sacred books, or Bibles. They have learned of forty- 
seven gods and sixteen so-called crucified saviors. 
They have learned of thirty-six so-called holy men, 
said to have been born of virgins. They have learned 
that the Bible is largely a plagiarized edition of other 
so-called Bibles or sacred books of other religions. 
They have learned that the Christian Church is 
founded upon pious fables which have survived to 
this date, because, persecution by the bigoted “Klans- 
men” of this “Invisible Empire” have kept the world 
in ignorance of the truth, and made it extremely dan¬ 
gerous for any one to do his own thinking. The Bible 
has “stood the test” for seventeen hundred years of 
Christian warfare, because, in a large measure, the 
church has succeeded in keeping the world in ignor¬ 
ance and because of the terrible persecutions ad¬ 
ministered to those who dared to deny its authority. 

Very few Christians read the Bible, or study it in 
the light of reason. Blind-folded, they are lead 
through the vast labyrinth of mythical theologies, by 
the guiding hand of preacher and priest; self con¬ 
stituted vicars of a “voodo” god, whose bread, butter 


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and social position depends upon their success in 
hood-winking the people. 

Many Christians are excellent people; they are 
good in spite of their creeds, and not because of them. 
Many clergymen honestly believe the creeds and 
dogmas they teach. They do not think they are true, 
for they do not think. They never ask questions re¬ 
garding the absurdity and unreasonableness of 
theology. Such men were born without a single 
interrogation point in their religious natures. 

History proves, conclusively, that intellectual de¬ 
velopment, knowledge, social and moral conditions, 
advances or recedes in inverse ratio to religion. The 
church has bitterly opposed every reform, every 
scientific discovery, and all knowledge considered 
incompatible with the teachings of the Bible. The 
church opposed science; it opposed general educa¬ 
tion; it opposed temperance; it opposed freeing the 
slaves; it opposed woman’s suffrage and every reform 
calculated to benefit mankind. However, it has been 
forced to retreat from each position, and when re¬ 
ligion has lost all its authority, the world will be “A 
fit place to live in.” 

Error can never be right, no matter how much it 
is sugar-coated with pious hypocrisies, faith or 
fables. And before the stately mansion of TRUTH 
can be erected in the world, it will be necessary to 
raze the “House of Mystery,” and dig down to the 
solid rock of knowledge to lay its foundations. The 
catacombs of ignorance and superstition, in which are 


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interred the gods, devils and holy-ghosts of myth¬ 
ology, must be invaded and its caverns lighted up 
with the truths of science. The telescope of science 
and the search-light of truth, must be turned toward 
the traditional heaven of dogmatic theology; where 
sits enthroned, the pagan, mythological, hierarchical 
aristocracy of the kingdom of ignorance. 

Truth is iconoclastic. Its mission is to replace 
error and false traditions, break the image of theo- 
craticomythological theologies, or store them in the 
museum of dead faiths and outgrown religions. 

The good that is found in the religions of today 
will not be destroyed. The debris of worthless ma¬ 
terial will, finally, all be cleared away, but that which 
is found to be scientifically sound and useful, will be 
retained and used in the grand structure of a religion, 
able to prove and demonstrate its teachings. 

A scientific religion, based upon demonstrated 
facts and which will appeal to thinking men and 
women of the world, will revolutionize social and 
political conditions, and make wars impossible. Such 
a condition is devoutly to be wished for, and the duty 
of all to strive for. The head-land of this Utopia can 
be seen in the distance, but we are not ready to 
“possess the land.” Much preparation and education 
will be necessary before we reach that exalted state 
in the process of evolution, when we shall “Conduct 
ourselves toward others as we would have them act 
toward us.” 0 si sic omnia. 

AMICUS CURIAE. 


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